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...sign post, lie the twisted remains of one of the most revolutionary machines known to man. There, with its spokes broken and seat stolen lies one of the vehicles which helped North Viet Nam break the back of the American military might. Bicycles like that one daily transport the 800 million people of china and most of the rest of the people of the world. Americans with their taste for the automobile are a tiny minority. Bicycles represent the most efficient method of transportation known to man. They allow us to travel five times as far and three times...
...MANHATTAN a bus ride can transport you through different worlds. There are no actual boundaries, but each section of town has its own culture. Of all the neighborhoods, Harlem can often treat its inhabitants the hardest. Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is a vignette about a Harlem family beset by the frustrations of being black in the city...
Meir made the announcement at a closed meeting of her executive, or governing council, Shimon Peres, Israeli transport minister, said yesterday. Peres said that Meir gave no detailed reason for her resignation. He said she implied the reason was "the half-hearted reception" for her plans to form a minority government...
After the National Coal Board warned that a third of the mines were endangered by flooding or underground fires, pickets allowed safety crews to go into the shafts for maintenance work. Nonetheless, the strike was effective. Britain's huge Transport and General Workers' Union threw its weight behind the miners by refusing to deliver coal to electrical generating stations...
...cost-controlled movies it celebrates. But Warner Brothers' Fifty Years of Film and Fifty Years of Film Music (which can be purchased separately for $12.98) is one of the pop cultural bargains of the year. No history of movies, however well written or lavishly illustrated, can so effortlessly transport one back to the matinees of yesterday as this anniversary collection of samplings from the studio's sound tracks...